In
the past month, President Barack Obama released over 2,000 illegal
alien migrants into the general population. He didn’t usher
them back to the border; he let them out of prison and into the
general population. He plans to release thousands more in the coming
months.

Additionally,
he no longer enforces our immigration laws internally and he doesn’t
enforce them at the borders. In other words, America no longer remains
a sovereign country, but a destination for millions of third world
people.

Dan
Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform,
www.fairus.org , spoke with me about it this week:

“After
news was leaked through several sources, U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) officials confirmed they have been releasing illegal
aliens in federal custody in order, they claim, to satisfy cuts
under the sequester,” said Stein. “In fact, according
to internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) documents reviewed
by the Associated Press, the Administration released more
than 2,000 illegal aliens before the sequester even took effect,
releasing roughly 1,000 illegal aliens per week since February 15.
In addition, the documents reveal the administration planned to
release 3,000 additional illegal aliens during the month of March.

“Under
the sequester – which took effect Friday – ICE must
cut 5.3 percent of its budget. However, according to the internal
DHS documents, ICE field offices were told to cut their detention
capacity five times that amount (or 26 percent) from 34,000 detainees
to 25,748 by March 31, 2013.

“Members
of Congress – including many who had remained silent in the
face of previous abuses of executive discretion – responded
sharply to the release of thousands of illegal aliens, including
some with criminal records, back onto the streets. Speaker of the
House John Boehner called the move “outrageous.” Several
Members of Congress also wrote letters to Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano, decrying her Department’s reckless behavior.

“However,
in spite of the protests from Capitol Hill, the release of illegal
aliens from detention has not resulted in congressional action to
curb the Administration’s abuse of executive discretion.

“Though
the White House and Secretary Napolitano have deflected blame for
the releases onto ICE field offices, they are making no apologies
for the policy or indicating any plans to maintain the 34,000 detention
beds mandated by Congress. And, conveniently, this decision plays
well with supporters of mass amnesty and fits within the Administration’s
plans to stop detaining or removing all but the most violent criminal
aliens.”

Report:
DHS has No Official Metrics to Measure Border Security

“The
Government Accountability Office (GAO) has
released a report stating that the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) has no official metrics in place to measure whether the border
is secure and has no plans to adopt any such metrics until late
this year,” said Stein. “Beginning in 2004, DHS used
“operational control” as its metric of whether U.S.
borders were secure. The Border Patrol defined operational control
as “the ability to detect, identify, classify, and then respond
to and resolve illegal entries along our U.S. Borders.” However,
that yardstick was abandoned at the end of FY 2010.”

At
the end of FY 2010, DHS stunningly reported operational control
over:

Only
13 percent of the border, or 1,107 of the 8,607 miles across U.S.
northern, southwest, and coastal borders.

44
percent of the 2,000-mile southwest border.

“These
sorry numbers probably go a long way toward explaining why an administration
bent on convincing the American public that our borders are secure
decided to scrap the “operational control” metric,”
said Stein. “Remarkably, instead of investing the energy needed
to secure the border, the Obama administration decided to use the
number of apprehensions as an interim measure. GAO criticized the
use of apprehensions as a metric, stating it only reported Border
Patrol “activity” not “results.”

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“DHS
Secretary Napolitano has been touting a decline in apprehensions
over the past few years as proof positive that the government has
secured the border. But even the Border Patrol acknowledges that
there were multiple factors causing the decline, including the economic
downturn. Another critical factor, widely reported by Border Patrol
officers on the front lines, is that they are under instruction
not to apprehend too many illegal border crossers.

“Still,
the Obama administration is in no rush to adopt a new measure for
border security, despite the fact that it is asking Congress to
pass a massive amnesty bill. It could still be months, if not years,
before the Administration is able to point to a consistent, reliable
metric that gauges whether the government is in fact securing the
border.”

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